Best button layout and parts for shmups...

[TheRealNeoGeo]

Making a stick for my DC at the moment (summer hobby) and was wondering what the community likes the most, what button layout is the best do you think?
And I guess LS-32-01 is the joystick to use? What buttons do you use the most?

Just working on a stick for Psyvariar and Ikaruga so would be nice to know what you guys think .

[PC Engine Fan X!]

It's great to see a custom arcade stick pay tribute to Success' Psyvariar games. The stages featured in both Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revision may be short & sweet but they do show off what the Taito G-Net mobo is capable of pulling off in terms of bullet hell/danmaku (since it's runs on souped-up PSX 1.5 hardware anyways). Are you going with the original Psy-MU or the later Psy-R artwork for the joystick panel overlay, TheRealNeoGeo?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[TheRealNeoGeo]

It's great to see a custom arcade stick pay tribute to Success' Psyvariar games. The stages featured in both Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revision may be short & sweet but they do show off what the Taito G-Net mobo is capable of pulling off in terms of bullet hell/danmaku (since it's runs on souped-up PSX 1.5 hardware anyways). Are you going with the original Psy-MU or the later Psy-R artwork for the joystick panel overlay, TheRealNeoGeo?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Thanks for the reply. I am making this stick with a friend and it will have a metal panel on it with some print of text, so no artwork in that way.
I want to have a 3 button layout and was wondering what you guys liked the most, is there a favorite layout for 3-buttons in the shmups community?
Also I guess people still use the LS-32(-01)? What buttons are preferred?

[gct]

I used the Seimitsu screw-in PS-14-KN in my Agetec stick. Some people have done some great Agetec mods, but I found it to be a very troublesome stick to mod.

If you are only using 3 buttons, personally I like to use the 3 in the top row.

[Ed Oscuro]

Best layout is C button in immediate view on the immediate right, A button above the stick, and the B button underneath the cabinet.

Really seems simple to me - A, B, C, (in order of proportion of use after all) and you can stagger them up or down a little depending on where you place your fingers. On the homebrew stick I got from somebody else, made from a Dreamcast controller, the A button is a few inches right of the stick, and the top of the button is a bit below the shaft of the joystick (running an imaginary line left to right); the B button is level with the joystick center, and so is the C button. Put another way, there's two rows of buttons and the A / X buttons are inbetween the rows of BC / YZ buttons.

If I was standing up I'd probably want the A button about level with the B and C buttons, but still a bit below (unless it's wide enough that your arms come out perpendicular to your chest line, instead of reaching across your chest a bit to reach grouped controls).